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| June 21, 2021 | California Draft Budget Would Fund $30m New Hospital in San Diego | The state’s draft budget includes $30 million for a new hospital to replace the University of California San Diego’s medical center, which according to an internal seismic safety survey ...Read more |
| June 17, 2021 | Massachusetts General Hospital Adding New Towers, 1M Square Feet | Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) is the third oldest hospital in the United States. It has been ranked the fourth best h ...Read more |
| June 14, 2021 | Construction Material Costs Now Stonewalling Projects | It’s no secret that construction material prices are sky-high pretty much across the board. Be it plastics, lumber, steel, asphalt, roofing, piping, wallboard, insulation, or cement, Contractor N ...Read more |
| June 11, 2021 | South Bend Has Given Just 0.006% of Contracting Dollars to Minorities This Year | As Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg tours the country promoting President Biden’s infrastructure proposal, South Bend continues to lag in minority business participation in city contractin ...Read more |
| June 10, 2021 | SBA Gives University of Maryland $400K for New Vet Biz Training Center | The funding is being given out from the Small Business Administration (SBA)’s Office of Veteran Business Development towards the University of Maryland’s Division of Research. It will be used t ...Read more |
| June 9, 2021 | Monroe City, Louisiana Greenlights $46M Water Plant Expansion | The company exceeds a 17 percent participation rate from disadvantaged business enterprises, according to city engineer Kim Golden. The city council also awarded a "$1.09 million alternate project ...Read more |
| June 8, 2021 | Federal Government to Ramp Up Procurement from SDBs to Tune of $100B | As the White House Fact Sheet notes, the United States federal government “is the largest consumer of goods in the world.” By ramping up procurement from minority-owned businesses, the Biden Ad ...Read more |
| June 7, 2021 | Construction Jobs Down 20K in May | Construction season is generally believed to begin between the first of April and the first of June, depending on the state you are in. So it’s somewhat bleak news that job numbers dropped this M ...Read more |
| June 3, 2021 | SBA’s Venue Relief Program Also Telling Business Owners They Are Dead | The Shuttered Venue Operators Operators Grant (SVOG) program was passed into law in the December 2020 coronavirus stimulus package, coming as music to the ears of music venue operators after a long ...Read more |
| June 1, 2021 | Veteran Slams SBA’s EIDL Program, Wants to Talk to Manager | This is a topic we at Contractor News have been monitoring for some time as small businesses owners on social media have tried to use what little voice they have to sound the alarm about the SBA’ ...Read more |